{"id":90074,"date":"2026-01-15T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/?p=90074"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:18:40","slug":"iea-x-sgci-ericka-walker-artist-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/2026\/01\/15\/iea-x-sgci-ericka-walker-artist-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"iea x SGCI: Ericka Walker Artist Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]A collaboration with Southern Graphic Council International (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgcinternational.org\/\">SGCI<\/a>) and the iea &#8211; Ericka Walker is an artist who specializes in printmaking and large-scale graphic arts. Her print works and site-specific murals subvert the propagandistic function of nostalgia in contemporary culture, disputing the civilizing influence and assumed moral authority of nation building in North America. Learn about her recent body of work and print edition being made in the iea during her two week visit, which will be available for purchase through <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/iea-editions\/\">iea<em>Editions<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Artist Talk<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgcinternational.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-90083\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/01\/SGCInternationalLogo_Color_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWednesday, March 25, 2026 &#8211; 7pm-8:30pm ET<br \/>\nIn-person: Holmes Auditorium<br \/>\nIf you missed Ericka\u2019s artist talk, you can view it and others on our YouTube channel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@theinstituteforelectronica5746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;90077&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;90078&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Walker, Ericka b. 1981, Hartford, Wisconsin, USA. Active in Canada.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">Ericka Walker received a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MFA from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. She lives and works in Mi\u2019kmaqi (Atlantic Canada), where she is a practicing artist and an Associate Professor at NSCAD University.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">Walker\u2019s practice operates on vernacular histories of the graphic arts. Her print works and site-specific murals subvert the propagandistic function of nostalgia in contemporary culture, disputing the civilizing influence and assumed moral authority of nation building in North America.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">Walker exhibits widely throughout North America and internationally, with pieces housed in multiple public and private collections. Her work appeared recently in exhibitions at the Palace of Arts in the Egyptian Opera House Square, Cairo, Egypt; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA; Mus\u00e9e Pierre-Boucher, Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, QC, Canada; the Knoxville Museum of Art, TN, USA; the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC, Canada; Huron Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA; the Civic and Cultural Center Numancia, Santander, Spain; Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia; The Reach Gallery and Museum, Abbotsford, BC, Canada, and the International Print Center, NYC, NY.<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_column_text]A collaboration with Southern Graphic Council International (SGCI) and the iea &#8211; Ericka Walker is an artist who specializes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":90078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90074"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90503,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90074\/revisions\/90503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.alfred.edu\/iea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}